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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Graphite

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.49
Rank#130  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score5.46
Rank#75  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-web
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperAmazonChris Davis
Initial release20122006
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePython
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data only
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolocking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesno

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